two other events were occurring in Austin radio. Butler Broadcasting, the owner of country KVET (1300 AM), was seeking a place to move that station's format to the FM band. But Butler already owned KASE-FM 100.7, the city's dominant country station. The company could not own another FM frequency. Meanwhile, at 96.7 MHz, oldies station KQFX was being sold. Both were instrumental in what happened next. In the second ever local marketing agreement (LMA) in radio—the first having been drawn up by Kuykendall in Jackson, Mississippi—Spur leased the FM's air time to KVET. With that move, KVET began simulcasting on FM. Meanwhile, Joyner Communications, the new owner of KQFX, fired its airstaff and took on the entire KHFI-FM intellectual unit and Top 40 format. Running two country stations KVET believed that Austin could support two country music stations, citing the example of other Texas markets. The music mix was differentiated: KASE was more contemporary while KVET-FM was more traditional than its stablemate. Coinciding with the beginning of the FM simulcast, that station's existing morning show was blown up and a new team of Sammy Allred and Bob Cole instituted. It turned out to be a profitable bet. By 1994, KVET-FM was the fifth-rated station in town. The AM station, in turn, was shifting to a talk radio format. By late 1994, the morning show was the only offering simulcast on both frequencies. In 1995, after the FCC legalized broadcast duopolies, Butler purchased KVET-FM outright for $5 million. Capstar acquisition At the end of 1997, Capstar Broadcasting purchased KVET, KVET-FM and KASE for $90 million. Capstar would later merge into San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications, the forerunner to current owner iHeartMedia, Inc. In May 2007, morning show host Sammy Allred was suspended after calling presidential candidate Barack Obama a "clean darky", in response to Sen. Joseph Biden's comments about Obama. He was fired on October 30, 2007, for apparently swearing on-air, calling a listener an "a-hole." Allred's firing came just three days after afternoon host Janice Williams was terminated for budgetary reasons. HD Radio Initially, the 103.1 K276EL translator station broadcast the "Air 1" Contemporary Christian music network from the Educational Media Foundation, which owned the translator and needed an originating HD Radio subchannel to feed the format. When Clear Channel began leasing the translator, Air 1 was dropped in favor of a simulcast of co-owned sports station KVET. The simulcast